A swindle is a kind of
fraud
In law, fraud is intent (law), intentional deception to deprive a victim of a legal right or to gain from a victim unlawfully or unfairly. Fraud can violate Civil law (common law), civil law (e.g., a fraud victim may sue the fraud perpetrato ...
or
confidence trick
A scam, or a confidence trick, is an attempt to defraud a person or group after first gaining their trust. Confidence tricks exploit victims using a combination of the victim's credulity, naivety, compassion, vanity, confidence, irrespons ...
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Swindle may also refer to:
People
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Swindle (surname)
Places
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Swindle Island
Swindle Island is an island on the North Coast of the Canadian province of British Columbia. It is located south of Princess Royal Island on the Inside Passage shipping route. The small First Nations community of Klemtu is located on its eastern ...
, British Columbia, Canada
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8690 Swindle, an asteroid
Films
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Il bidone
''Il bidone'' , ''The Swindle'', is a 1955 Italian drama film directed by Federico Fellini starring Broderick Crawford, Richard Basehart and Giulietta Masina.
Plot
In the country outside Rome, a group of swindlers dress up as clerics and con poor ...
'' (English titles ''The Swindle'' or ''The Swindlers''), a 1955 Italian film directed by Federico Fellini
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Squadra antitruffa'' (English titles ''The Swindle''), a 1977 Italian film directed by Bruno Corbucci
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''The Swindle'' (1997 film), a French crime-comedy film directed by Claude Chabrol and starring Isabelle Huppert
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''Swindle'' (2002 film), a crime thriller starring Tom Sizemore and Sherilyn Fenn
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''Swindle'' (2013 film), a television film based on Gordon Korman's book ''Swindle''
Other uses
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Swindle (chess)
In chess, a swindle is a ruse by which a player in a losing position tricks their opponent and thereby achieves a win or draw instead of the expected loss. It may also refer more generally to obtaining a win or draw from a clearly losing posit ...
, a ruse by which a chess player in a losing position tricks his opponent
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Swindle (Transformers), several fictional characters in the ''Transformers'' universe
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''Swindle'' (novel), a 2008 children's book by Gordon Korman
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''Swindle'' (magazine), a bi-monthly arts and culture publication from 2004 to 2009
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''The Swindle'' (video game), a 2015 video game
See also
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Swindler (disambiguation)
A swindler is generally a charlatan, a person practicing quackery, fraud, or similar confidence trick in order to obtain money, property, or advantage by pretense.
People
* Swindler (surname), list of people with this name
Media
* The Swindler ...
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''Swindled'' (film), a 2004 Spanish-French thriller
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